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Middlesex Executive Council
This body is responsible for the provision under
the National Health Service Act of the general
practitioner, dental (other than Local Health
Authority provision for expectant and nursing
mothers, young children and school children)
pharmaceutical and supplementary ophthalmic
services. The headquarters of the Council are at
North West House 119 Marylebone Road NW1
Tel: 01-723 1277.
Ambulance Service
The Borough is included in the area of the
Greater London Council Ambulance Service.
Provision is made for the conveyance of sick,
accident and emergency cases. Tel: 01-204 0251.
Health Centres
The borough council is in favour of integrating
the local health authority services with the general
practitioner service by the provision of health
centres.
Groups of family doctors throughout the
borough showed an increasing interest in schemes
for working from combined centres with the local
health authority. During the year the department
continued to have discussions with the Middlesex
Executive Council, the Local Medical Committee,
the Ministry of Health and general medical
practitioners.
The end of the year saw one health centre
completed and one nearing completion.
Approval was also received to the adaptation of a
large clinic to provide a health centre to
accommodate six general practitioners in addition
to the local health authority services.
Schedules of accommodation and briefs were
prepared in respect of two other health centres
after consultation with the Ministry of Health and
it is hoped that these projects will start in the
1967/68 financial year.
Heston Health Centre Vicarage Farm Road
This centre which was completed in September
1966 is in use for local health authority and
school health services. Negotiations on rental and
contracts were proceeding with the Middlesex
Executive Council and the two family doctors
who wish to work from the centre.
Spring Road Health Centre Felt ham
This centre which is in the course of erection
should be completed early in 1967. Three
consulting rooms and three examination rooms
will be available to family doctors on a shared
accommodation basis. Preliminary negotiations
with doctors who wish to work from the centre
are proceeding.
Brentford Health Centre
Work on the adaptation of the Brentford Clinic
to provide shared accommodation for six general
practitioners who have inadequate premises or
will be displaced by redevelopment schemes will
commence in 1967.
Hounslow Health Centre 92 Bath Road
An outline of the services to be provided from
this proposed comprehensive health, welfare and
children's centre was given in my previous report.
Schedules of accommodation and briefs were
prepared in respect of phases I and II of this
project. The Ministry of Health approved sketch
plans for phase I enabling the borough architect
to proceed with working drawings.
The accommodation to be provided in phase I
comprises a general practitioner unit from which
thirteen doctors wish to practise full-time and a
further six part-time, and a child psychiatric unit.
This building will be linked to the existing local
health authority clinic and the dental and school
clinics and to the health department's main
administrative offices.
Phase II will provide accommodation for
mental health services including a day centre for
the mentally ill who are capable of recovery and
return to normal living, also flats for two
midwives and a caretaker.
Subject to a satisfactory conclusion in regard to
contracts and rentals it is hoped that building
work on this project will start early in 1968.
Phase III which will accommodate the
children's and welfare departments and
communal accommodation including dining
rooms, a conference room and a library is
included in the programme for the 1969/70
financial year.
South Hounslow Health Centre
A group of three doctors has indicated an
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